Vomitorium

I am signed up for two different word-of-the-day email listservs, and occasionally I get rather hooked on a particularly great word that hits my inbox… recent favs include hebetudinous (lethargic) and schedenfreude (finding pleasure in the misfortune of others).

However, you don’t just have to be limited to such devices… just watch ESPN!

While watching a piece on the Pacers-Pistons brawl, there was a reference to the “vomitorium,” which as it turns out is the term for the tunnel exit from the floor to the locker rooms, etc.

Freakin’ awesome… getting off the bus is now going through the vomitorium. Change your perspective: the entranceway of my house is now the vomitorium. Exiting a computer program is now a vomitory process (which works on several levels in Windows).

Update: Apparently everybody is getting in the game… I have heard “vomitorium” used on several different occasions while watching NBA and college games over the past two days. It’s going to get old rather quickly… a shame, really.